1/ The first global space-to-space and space-to-ground secure quantum comms network is on the way, to protect and empower US and allied businesses and militaries. DCVC backed Capella Space and our friends, the quantum systems leaders at IonQ are joining forces...

Investing in the seed round is truly the most joyful part of being a VC. You are betting and partnering with the the best founders of our generation. Proud to take the #45 spot on Business Insider's Seed 100 List on behalf of DCVC and the phenomenal founders we partner with.

We at DCVC are very proud to see our own Ali Tamaseb featured on Business Insider's Seed 100 list, which recognizes exemplary early-stage investors 👏 🥂 Congrats, Ali!

Interesting analysis by Ilya Strebulaev on angel investments in unicorns—great to see DCVC co-founder + managing partner Matt Ocko on the list. 👏 DCVC's core interest in early support for great founders comes from the top.

1/ Delayed thoughts from Hill and Valley. It was great to see real energy around reshoring and advanced manufacturing. But precision machining alone won’t rebuild our industrial base. Manufacturing is layered, and we've skipped key foundational steps.

Wrapped an unforgettable fireside chat w/ Garry Tan, Y Combinator CEO, and 100+ Super Founders Club Club members. Talked about challenges and advantages for second-time post-exit founders, and what problems worth solving in the AI era. Video coming soon. What would you ask Garry?

Introducing interactive video from Odyssey—video you can watch and interact with, imagined by AI in real-time. Give it a try for free today on (almost) any device, and let us know what you think. We think it's pretty cool!

Great SG get together with old friends Balaji Benedict Evans & some generational founders - binnybansal of Flipkart, Munjal of hippocraticai, June Paik of FuriosaAI, Arthur Mak of YouTrip, Ali Tamaseb of DCVC & my partners Pinn Lawjindakul & Kevin Aluwi of Lightspeed!

Wrapped up a great trip to Singapore! Was a pleasure to speak about latest developments in AI, hype vs. reality at SuperAI, meet our partners and LPs in the region, and connect with deep-tech founders in the region.

As FINRA looks to update its rules for the AI era, Reality Defender (Reality Defender) is ready to help the industry stay ahead of fraudsters. DCVC General Partner Ali Tamaseb caught up with CEO Ben Colman for his thoughts 👇

Happy DCVC is on this list from Ilya Strebulaev of Stanford University in such august company. A number of the folks here were defining how to create big wins for all stakeholders back when I was still jealous that 1978 Apple IIs had color graphics and my Z80 box did not… 😉

leaving out the years that he worked at AMD and LSI is a great eg of how a lionizing narrative works. it creates the impression of superhuman genius, which confers a valuable aura that has material impact on morale, negotiations, etc. Similar to “Singapore was a fishing village”

The extent to which Persians with a background in networking are contributing to AI is heavily under appreciated ...

DCVC is doubling down on quantum! Big welcome to UCLA Prof. Prineha Narang as a DCVC Operating Partner. Pri heads a lab at the intersection of theoretical and computational science, condensed matter physics, quantum photonics, + quantum info science. Find blog in comments👇

Reality Defender just launched a public API that puts enterprise-grade deepfake detection in the hands of any developer — with just two lines of code. DCVC GP Ali Tamaseb sat down with CEO Ben Colman to discuss this. (Link in comments👇) Reality Defender

We DCVC are excited to be backing Joshua Meier and team on this quest. Power team 💪

Inside the top 35 for DCVC in TIME’s top 350 VC ranking. Top decile? I’ll take it, after two decades for our team of firm building and helping great founders “cancel the apocalypse”… Next year, top 25 😈 (Link follows)

.DCVC is #8 of top 50 (since ‘09) unicorn investors in Ilya Strebulaev’s Stanford University analysis Happy to be listed w/so many friends & co-investors We’ll keep backing #DeepTech teams that deliver real world value for critical industries & national problems, and DPI for our LPs

🧵 1/ Is venture broken? It’s a question I’m hearing almost daily across the VC ecosystem – and as an LP, one I can’t ignore. We set out to find an answer by digging into the data. What we found was that, despite the expanding influence of mega-funds, dedicated Seed & Series A

this week, Meta announced plans to launch a power trading business, Atem, to manage the power costs of their massive data center footprint this marks a new era of vertical integration and with it, a new era for commodity and compute markets a deep dive, with charts ofc 👇